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Saturday, July 16, 2011

Colds, naps, playgroup

Possibly the greatest injustice of motherhood is that when everyone else gets sick, you take care of them, and when you get sick? You still take care of them. That's my round-a-bout way of telling you that we're all getting over colds, thanks to Adam who brought home the latest bug. He works in a windowless office (literally) and doesn't get enough vitamin D, so you can't be too surprised. This was

Avery's first time getting a cold though. Even though I've been sick SIX times now since October (!!!) she never got even so much as a sniffle (yay breastfeeding!), but I guess that couldn't last forever. She had that fever thing a few months ago, but that was her only symptom. I'm not sure if I prefer the fever or the cold! The fever was kind of scary, what with the limp and listless baby and all, but the runny nose and inability to breathe is annoying!

Anyway, so, sick husband all weekend, sick baby starting Monday, sick me starting Tuesday. Happily it wasn't a bad cold at all and I was mostly functional throughout. Cause like I said, no one took care of me (boo hoo). Speaking of colds, though, I have to tell you all about this awesome iPhone app I discovered (or Droid if that's your poison). It's called LactMed and you can look up any drug and whether it's safe for breastfeeding.

Avery has started to branch out socially. Our next door neighbor has a three year old and if she sees him outside playing she wants to go over and join in. So we met our neighbors, yay! Anyway, she told me about a playgroup the YMCA holds so we went to check it out on Thursday. I was a little squicked out by the state and general stickiness of all the toys, but Avery thought it was great fun and careened around playing with everything for about five seconds each.

The only way we were able to go is because I was trying to solve our sleep problems by forcing Avery down to one nap. With her napping around ten every morning, we haven't been able to go to any playgroups or meet ups. And I spend too much time fighting to get her to sleep three times a day (two naps and night). But it didn't seem to have much positive effect. She was more tired and easier to get down, but slept even less than before, so I think we are back to two naps for now, and I'm back to spending several hours walking the child around until she falls asleep every day.

Sorry this is so disjointed. Adam and I are trying to watch True Grit in 20-30 minute intervals while Avery takes her catnaps, and it's on in the background right now so I've mostly lost any unifying thread in this post. I have several posts floating around in my head, including one on co-sleeping and one on vaccinating - why we are not.